Ghosts and Hauntings in RCT.
Posted by Y ddraenen from Aberdare on the 19th October 2013
I've always been interested in this subject, and would love to read anyone else's experiences of hauntings and strange phenomena that they have seen personally or heard about in the RCT area.
It interests me purely as a study in human psychology, not that I doubt people's real experiences of the phenomenon, as I'm sure they definitely do come into contact with something beyond our present understanding and scientific knowledge. After all, it's been said many times that there are more things in heaven and Earth than we could ever explain. This issue is one of them.
There are stories around of phantom monks in the Plasdraw area of Aberdare, as there was once a rest house there for pilgrims going across to Penrhys and its holy well, or to Margam Abbey.
I also remember reports some years ago of St. David's center, next to Wetherspoons, being haunted, and the old Aberdare hospital too having strange appearances within its walls and grounds.
As a kid I used to hear of certain houses being spooked, and we'd run past them like the wind if we ever had occasion to be near them.
So, if anyone else has any tales to tell, what with Halloween due at the end of this month, I'd be pleased to hear about them.
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Every time I walk with the dog near the former Abernant Ironworks there I always sense some sort of presence, the dog also seems to sense something too this has always been the sames since I was a kid playing in this area.
I have a lady in my house, been here since I moved in 7 years ago, no problems with her, seen her once or twice.
One of my old bosses used to live in Penywaun and had a problem with a young boy and his dad..... it started with things going missing from downstairs, such as food, fruit bowl and dish cloths which were then found under her little girls bed..... her son used to scream every night that a man was coming out of his wardrobe to get him... one day her neighbour rang her to inform her that her son was sat on his bedroom window ledge and to be careful not to frighten him when he ran upstairs. she asked him what was wrong and he said that the man in the wardrobe had told him that his family dont love him and he would be better going with him. after this they called in someone to check the house.... as soon as the man walked in he saw a little boy on the stairs, then spoke to the father in the son's room. (the story was that when penywaun was just land, the father and son were walking across it and the father had killed the child and buried him there) that is why the son could go up and down the stairs but the dad couldnt. the dad had returned to claim his son back but he wouldnt go, the dad originally thought my bosses son was his son..... the man who went to the house spoke to the father and he eventually left without the son. since that night my bosses son has never said about seeing the father again yet the little boy is still in the house x
A very good story Bunny I lived i Rhigos years ago not far from PENWAUN. Some of my school Mates lived there but not heared that story before.
Well it's not the dead we need to be scared of is it lol x
I lived in Penywaun myself for 18 years, but I never heard that tale before either. Very interesting though.
I don't know what to make of these tales. I certainly believe most people when they talk about them, as I'm sure they're not all deluded, and they have seen things beyond explanation. Are they spirits of the dead, or are they events coming through from other dimensions, or whatever?
Every area, and country in the world even, have tales of strange happenings and "visitations" that defy common sense. I wonder, does it tell us more about our own mental states than it does about the world outside our own heads? That's the reason why I've always kept an open and inquisitive mind about these things.
Intruders, things going missing, kids not knowing who their fathers are, all taking place in Penywaun??????
I think you'll find things like that go on everywhere, not just Penywaun Cocoman.... If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!!
I agree bunny. Coco can say what he likes about Penywaun or benefits scroungers as he calls them, but this thread is about something entirely different. Funny how, no matter what the issue, he can turn it into his pet gripe of blaming all the world's ills on the vulnerable and the poor.
Must have a mean spirit haunting his residence then,eh?
I've heard of coco the clown...now coco the ghost. Who you gonna call.........
Ghost Busters Hahaha ha.x